Special Issue on Palliative Care

Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to providing medical and nursing care for patients with life-limiting diseases. As a special method of clinical care, palliative care mainly focuses on symptoms control, alleviating pain, nutrition support, supplemented by psychological care. Palliative care can not only reduce traumas of patients, but also extend the patients’ survival time and improve life quality. Palliative care is a very important part of cancer treatment.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original researches and review articles on exploring palliative care. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Pediatric palliative care
• Palliative care for older people
• Home palliative care
• Palliative care settings
• Quality of palliative care
• Effects of palliative care

Authors should read over the journal’s For Authors carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly notice that the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue – Palliative Care” should be chosen during your submission.

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